Multi-City AV

Overview

The Multi-City AV Plugin gives you the ability to add location based filters on sites powered by the Vantage business directory theme. Once a location is selected by the user, they will only see the results from that location, until they switch to another region or choose to browse from all cities. The plugin comes with a widget to add on the header or the sidebar, in addition to give you the ability to place the location drop down menu anywhere on the page with one line of code. Notification messages can be enabled optionally to let the visitors know about the filter taking effect.

Key Features

Gives your users the ability to select a city/town and only browse listings and events from their region

Comes with a widget that can be placed in the header or the sidebar

Optionally add the select menu on the main navigation bar or anywhere else with one line of code

Homepage and category pages filter by the selected city automatically

Control which cities the site can be filtered by

Enable notifications when the filter is selected or reset

Integrates with default, customized or child theme versions of the Vantage by AppThemes

Support Policy

From February 2015, support will only be available via email from our email address .

Before you email us, please make sure you have browsed/searched through product forum for the answer to your question, and have read through the Support FAQs below:

Support FAQs

What kind of support is offered with a purchased product?
Your product purchase includes one year of access to premium support via email and one year or free updates. Beyond that, you will need to renew your subscription year on year for around 30% of the product price. Support covers issues such as bug fixes (if any) under normal operation, how to use basic product features, very basic WordPress help, and help with very basic theme customisaton. If you need more advanced modifications please consider hiring a developer to do it for you.

Will you provide help with small modifications?
If you need to do small modifications, you may get help from us as long as they are reasonable in number and nature. If you have a lot of such modifications, please consider paid developer help.

What kind of help would be unreasonable to ask?
This is not an easy question to answer. We are here to ensure that the product you purchased works as intended by us and serves its purpose on your website. That means if it doesn’t work for you, we can step in and help you with it. However, it is when there are no issues with the functioning of the product and all you want is help with modification, that demands start getting unreasonable.
As mentioned before, we don’t mind helping with modifications, but we also expect you to have tried everything to do it yourself. In other words, we expect you to have tried all the settings in your theme, ensured that the issue relates to the product in question, searched through legacy product support forum, and looked around on Google for the answer to your questions before approaching us. Please bear in mind that one theme, one child theme and a few plugins can get you only so far, and you will probably need to make changes to the code of your website to add functionality, change design and personalise it. In case of too many modifications, we will politely ask you to seek paid help.

I am using one of your child themes. I am having an issue with it.
Please make sure the issue is really with the child theme by activating the parent theme and checking if the problem gets solved. Also please make sure you have tested all the settings in parent theme and child theme, sometimes the answer is right in there! Send us an email if the issue still persists.

I am using one of your child themes. I need help with customisation.
As a pre-requisite, you are going to need a basic understanding of HTML & CSS to start customising the layout and style of your theme. To dig deeper PHP knowledge, specifically to WordPress, will help as well. The WordPress Codex is a great place to start learning. For CSS changes related to text colour, background colour, fonts, etc, please consider using the Firebug extension. A simple Google search returns many good text/video tutorials.

Do you offer paid WordPress development services?
Yes we do depending on our work schedule. You can always run your requirements by us via email.

4 reviews of “Multi-City AV”

Great plugin, but… I’d really like to have it more Vantage styled out of the box. I’d like it to reset itself to default “Select city” when the page is visited again later. On the other hand, I’d wish it had options to set a city as default and Google map changed in accordance on loading page. It’ll be nice to have a second combo list, so we could define countries and states or states and cities or cities and neighborhoods. Finally, it seems to me a little pricy, considering that it cost one third of the Vantage theme cost. However, if the plugin had all this wishes included, well, it would worth the while.

The feature is great. Support was quick when sent an issue with some cities not working because their names were too common across the country. Somewhat slow when the filter is used and I am looking for a way to ensure “featured” listings maintain the top of the sort when the filter is used which currently doesn’t happen.

This is a very useful functionì for Vantage but after I installed it and tried to filter by city or region my site started going extremely slow. And I mean that it takes around 10 seconds every time I filter…

Comments (75)

Hi I bought the plugin that I find fantastic. I am integrating my site http://www.portaljardines.com, when to filter by a city I works fine, but what I do not work well is the plugin “Map Supreme Google Map”, I bought it precisely because in this plugin displays a option that says

Enable “Vantage Multi-City” plugin from google map?

This option I have checked the list of filtered well by listing the town however the map is showing me all cities.

I have this plugin installed on my site and i wanted to know if there was a way that i can have a featured listing displayed site wide in all cities. I am able to see the featured listing if i have no city selected but i want to be able to show the same featured listing in all cities any suggestions on how i can do this ?

I have the same problem as mjsoto above. When I select a city, the search result are fine, but the Mapsupreme plugin map show all the entries, not just the selected city.
The “Enable “Vantage Multi-City” plugin from google map” option on the map widget is checked, but it does not work.

Another suggestion for a future update… I have bought this plugin because I thought the cities in the drop-down list are added automatically when a new entry from a new city is added. It would be much more convinient than adding the new cities manually.

I have a couple of questions… I have a straight HTML site that I am going to convert to wordpress… the site will be a “regular” info type site with listing functionality. I want companies to be able to list themselves for a fee… which this plugin seems to be able to do very well… The main question is this: I have a bunch of pages broke down by cities and states… for example, alabama… and for that page I have text and such related to alabama and what my company sells… (I can’t list the site to show you an example but it doesn’t matter for this question – the explanation should be enough)… I would like for all the companies who are in the directory in the state of Alabama to show up on the sidebar on that Alabama page… and say for example, on the Atlanta page… only companies who are listed and in atlanta (or the surrounding areas) to show up on that Atlanta page. Can this plugin do that too? Have specific / filtered listings show up on different pages according to the topic (in this case a city and/or state) for a page?

I am not sure what you mean by “define a region for every city”, the plugin just takes a list of cities from you and uses the native Vantage method of geocoding the area (with the use of Google Maps API) to add a filter to your site. When you select a city, it’s just like you are searching within that city except, you see filtered results on the homepage and category/tag pages.

Hi,
can you set a distance for this plugin.
Meaning, when i select can I set a distance on which the plugin should search for listings? For instance; i search for london and want to show listings that are in london and within a range of 50 km from london..?

I would like a Multi-State Av. I have a niche site where some states only have as few as 5-10 people listed. In those states searching by City does not help much. This way my visitors could search and see if there is anyone in their state.